Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:42:54 -0500 | From | Don Zickus <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm |
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:06:11PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:40:59AM -0500, Don Zickus wrote: > > Unfortunately, there are various drivers that will never go upstream > > > > - paid storage drivers that provide bells and whistles on top of inbox > > driver > > That's because the developer doesn't want them upstream, that's their > fault, nothing we can do about them. > > > - old drivers/fs that application has been relying on for a long time but > > company doesn't have resources to migrate to current technology. > > That's what drivers/staging/ is for, I'll take anything that builds (and > sometimes stuff that doesn't build) as long as people are actually using > it. So send the stuff that is in this category on to me and that will > reduce your burden a _lot_.
Hi Greg,
I will forward this offer to the right folks and see who we can get to bite. :-) Thanks!
Cheers, Don
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